Without these soliloquies understanding Hamlet would be very hard, and there would be alot of guessing about what Hamlet is really about. Shakespeare uses soliloquies to discover and explore Hamlet's feelings and internal and external conflicts. In the soliloquies in act two through four the reader learns about Hamlet's deepest and most personal emotions about his fathers death and his mothers marriage to his uncle. .
It is in the first soliloquy that we are initially informed of Hamlet's desire to avenge his Father's death by killing the new King Claudius. Throughout this soliloquy Hamlet is fantasizing about killing Claudius and getting revenge, but also has a conflict with himself because he is not sure whether he has enough courage. Hamlet is furious with himself at being unable to express and carry out the rage he is keeping pent up inside. At the discovery of his Father's murder he is aware that he must avenge his Fathers unjust death, but he is unable to overcome the inner obstacle of his own cowardice towards murdering another. His frustration at this is clear as he refers to his own inability to express his more important task then the actor who has just preformed a scene:.
"What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba,.
That he should weep for her? What would he do.
Had he the motive and cue for passion.
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears,.
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,.
Make mad the guilty, and appal the free,.
Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed.
The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Yet I,.
A dull and muddy-mettled b rascal, peak.
Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,.
And can say nothing" .
(2,2,490-502) .
Hamlet is obviously very upset and even crazed by his inability to express the enormousness of his inner conflict as the actor can so easily show his emotions for nothing more then a play. Throughout the soliloquy Hamlet continues to put himself down as he questions whether he is coward enough to be unable to avenge the death of his Father: "Am I a coward?" "But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall".
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